PLUS (MT)

NOVA"Extreme Cave Diving"
Cave diver and environmental anthropologist Kenny Broad heads an interdisciplinary team of climatologists, paleontologists and anthropologists into underwater caves, or blue holes, formed during the last ice age. Broad is investigating the hidden history of Earth's climate as revealed by finds in this "alternate universe."G

NOVA"Extreme Cave Diving"
Cave diver and environmental anthropologist Kenny Broad heads an interdisciplinary team of climatologists, paleontologists and anthropologists into underwater caves, or blue holes, formed during the last ice age. Broad is investigating the hidden history of Earth's climate as revealed by finds in this "alternate universe."G

7:00 pm

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers"Hot Planet - Cold Comfort"
Alda learns about global warming and what could happen if the great Atlantic Conveyor shuts down. He also slogs through melting permafrost to survey drowning forests in Alaska.G

7:30 pm

Beneath The Surface: An Earthfix Special
This documentary looks at the unseen dangers and their impacts on the Northwest's fisheries, marine life and tribal communities. Topics include a look at toxic storm water runoff that flows into Puget Sound, how "ocean acidification" is adversely affecting Washington state's shellfish industry, and how Native American tribes are addressing depleted wild salmon runs.G

8:00 pm

Scientific American Frontiers"Superpeople"
Imagine someone holding his breath for seven-and-a-half minutes or memorizing a series of 500 random numbers. From extreme deep diving and extraordinary memory feats to prolonged space travel, people are pushing themselves to the limits of human performance. In this episode, Alda visits with former NASA/Mir astronaut and record- setting space traveler Jerry Linenger, goes head-to-head with competitors in a national memory contest and meets a group of champion deep-divers who will leave viewers breathless. D

9:00 pm

Going Blind
GOING BLIND is a unique documentary film that increases public awareness of sight loss and low vision issues profoundly affecting the lives of more and more people around the world by Peabody Award winning director Joseph Lovett. Director Joseph Lovett has glaucoma, a disease that robs 4.5 million people worldwide of their vision. After years of slowly losing his sight, Joe decides to take action: to investigate how people all over the country respond to vision-loss. D

10:30 pm

NOVA"Extreme Cave Diving"
Cave diver and environmental anthropologist Kenny Broad heads an interdisciplinary team of climatologists, paleontologists and anthropologists into underwater caves, or blue holes, formed during the last ice age. Broad is investigating the hidden history of Earth's climate as revealed by finds in this "alternate universe."G

11:30 pm

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers"Hot Planet - Cold Comfort"
Alda learns about global warming and what could happen if the great Atlantic Conveyor shuts down. He also slogs through melting permafrost to survey drowning forests in Alaska.G